Accession No

1955.49 C


Description

Dark buff ware decorated sherd. Possibly a lug, it is hollow and rounds into a small projecting cone, surrounded one one side with ridged semicircles decorated with stabbed lines.


Place

Americas; South America; Brazil; Pará; Santarém


Period

Incised and Punctate Horizon Santarem


Source

Ashton, Peter Shaw [collector and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1955.49 C


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

56mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Desrciption for 1955.49 A-C: 'Three adornos... C. Dark-stained buff ware, slightly asymmetrical cone with incomplete circles of raised and stabbed ornament on one side.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Surface collection. Collected by Peter Shaw Ashton, University of Cambridge Amazon Expedition 1954.
Original card has sketch of C
Event Date 1954
Author: maa


Context (References)
Ashton, P.S. (1955). ‘To The Mountains of the Moon’. The Eagle, vol. LVI, no. 246. pp. 161-164
Event Date 1955
Author: Clare McKenna


Description (Physical description)
Dark buff ware decorated sherd. Possibly a lug, it is hollow and rounds into a small projecting cone, surrounded one one side with ridged semicircles decorated with stabbed lines.
Event Date 5/12/2024
Author: Clare McKenna


FM:322446

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